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Cyber-Tensions Between Saudi Arabia and Israel on the Rise as Hackers Hit Stock Exchange and Airline Websites
Israel is receiving lessons in cyberwarfare as hackers continue to target their corporations and infrastructure—on Monday, hackers slowed (but did not break) the website for the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and El Al Israel Airlines took down their website after hacker, 0xOmar, who has been linked to the Saudi hacking crew group-xp, warned that it ...
EverQuest 2 Player Base Swells 300% Since Switching to Free-to-Play
In an ever-increasing understanding of how people play video games, massively multiplayer online gaming has been seeing a spike in interest since large subscription based games have been exploring the free-to-play model. The most recent in this venture is Sony Online Entertainment’s EverQuest 2—the spiritual and actual descendant of their extremely popular EverQuest. After switching ...
Awe Inspiring History of Bitcoin’s Development as an Unintended Music Video
David Perry, a database administrator and the author of Coding In My Sleep, has delivered to the Bitcoin community perhaps one of the most awe inspiring visualizations of Bitcoin’s developmental history. The video he produced has really taken off. “I stumbled across this excellent version control visualization tool called Gource,” writes Perry on his blog, ...
MakerBot ‘Replicator’ 3D Printer at CES 2012 Can Make Anything (In Two Colors)
Earlier this week at the Consumer Electronics Show—and unfortunately not a Star Trek convention—3D printer manufacturer, MakerBot, unveiled its newest amazing product dubbed the “MakerBot Replicator.” With two versions capable of making objects about the size of a loaf of bread (8.9 x 5.7 x 5.9 inches), the MakerBot is a product capable of extruding ...
Microsoft Stalls Plans for Web TV Streaming Subscriptions
From an exclusive story at Reuters it looks like Microsoft Corp has put subscription plans for broadcast television streaming to their Xbox LIVE platform on hold. Instead of becoming a replacement for cable, Microsoft is focusing on delivering cable programming via Xbox to already existing cable subscribers. Similar to Netflix Inc, Microsoft’s service also would ...
Cloud-Gaming Service OnLive Will be Preloaded on All Google TVs
Today, OnLive and Google proudly announced that the cloud-gaming service will be coming to the Google TV platform. Already as a product Google TV will be streaming a tremendous among of what they call “linear media” such as video, movies, and music but the addition of OnLive will bring the Internet-enabled TVs into the realm ...
Grab On to the Razer Fiona at CES 2012: New Hyper-Powered Gaming Tablet PC
San Diego headquartered Razer, best known manufacturer for high-quality but extremely expensive PC gaming peripherals such as keyboards, mice, and headphones, is coming out with their very own souped-up tablet gaming PC prototype the “Project Fiona.” We’ve seen this sort of gimmick before with the unveiling of the Switchblade laptop last year, but this one ...
Microsoft Makes Waves with Kinect for Windows Debut Starting February 1st, 2012
Redmond based Microsoft recently announced the due date of its Kinect for Windows project that will bring their much-vaunted hardware out of the gaming console and into the arena of the PC platform. The hardware and software is planned to be available starting February 1st, 2012 in 12 countries including the US, Canada, Mexico, and ...
Christmas Hack of Stratfor Leaves US and UK Intelligence Officials Laundry Flapping in the Wind
When hackers believed to be associated with the hacktivist collective Anonymous raided Texas security think tank Stratfor’s Christmas stockings they also pilfered e-mail addresses and encrypted passwords of numerous international security professionals. A British newspaper took the leaked list to task and analyzed the names cropping up in it and the leak is weirder than ...
Rumors: Will Next-gen Xbox be Tablet-based Technology?
Predictions and rumors are rampant currently with the advent of CES 2012 and numerous technological giants speaking at the conference but what’s got our eye right now is what might be coming next from Microsoft. On the firing line: the next-gen Xbox console. Gaming magazine Gamespot has a gallery of rumors surrounding these expectations and ...